Keep watching the news folks, it will include interesting bits such as the Australian Government psychofantically (that's how you spell it isn't it?) jumping onto the 'More Internet Regulation' bandwagon. Clearly, these guys used free internet encryption and anonaminity to smuggle plastic blades and bomb threats onto these planes.
You people can rest assured that we will remove every one of your liberties necessary to preserve ours. What a coincidence that the media has spun this low tech attack into a call for tighter internet regulations. It almost turns their fight from a battle to protect DVDs and CDs to a battle for our lives.
Anyway, repeating that news, ludicrously tight internet restrictions will be announced for Australia. The government is currently rubbing it's hands together and dreaming up all sorts of things. And we'll finally be able to get that grubby little arsehole that's been impersonating me on slashdot too.
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha wheeeeze ha ha ha ha ha ha cough
Damn right we will.. I'm already leaning towards banning it because it enables faster dissemination of copyright materials. We may have missed the chance to outlaw the internet as a whole, but we will definately get each and every individual new peice as it comes up.
Not only do we have our own version of the DMCA which would get this guy 5 years for creating a circumvention device, but we're actually introducing ammendments to the criminal code which would get him another 10 years for the same offence and of course even more time on top for having done it on a computer.
I actually have to wipe tears of laughter from my eyes as I think about the American Bill of Rights. Here, in Australia, the people's rights are protected by the politicians - however they see fit. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha.
In fact, our laws are now so intrusive that if Adobe gave us enough cash we could probably try extraditing this guy to Australia to face local charges over all of this. Unless someone can show that the law is unconstitutional, (which our constitution just doesn't provide for in this case), we'd have him!
By the way - has anyone noticed that you need to be using an Adobe product to view pretty much any Govt. document in Australia. Correction:You don't actually need to, but, with these new laws you wouldn't want to get caught using anything else.
It's when I see nievety like this that a smile really spreads across my face.
You people know the truth, it's impossible to censor the internet. So, when I and my cronies decide to try doing just that, we already know it's not going to work.
WE DID THIS SO THAT GRANDMA SIXPACK WOULD THINK WE WERE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT ALL THE NASTIES WE'VE TOLD HER ARE ON THE NET.
Did the opposition set up anything like this? No. Did we know that this massive waste of money would somehow surface in the media? Yes. Does it concern us that the public erroniously thinks we are putting massive resouces towards fixing a problem in society? Not at all.
In short, guys. Either acknowledge that this can't work, or sound surprised when it doesn't, but don't do both.
All your p0rn are now belong to me! Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
We (the Rich and Powerful) DO NOT want you people equiping yourselves with skills to stay independant of us. Why do you think we spend so much money trying to keep you from doing just that?
Don't go crying for this "criminal", either. He broke the law, just like you have, and luckily he was young and impressional enough that we were able to damage his psychie. Mark my words, give up your criminal activities before we advance this brain washing stuff to the point that we can get adults suicidal in minutes. Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
How dare they. We, in the "civilised" world, have come to accept that our constituants simply cannot be trusted to manage their own security. So we locked them out of the entire equation and have enacted laws that enable anyone with a big enough purse to help themselves to the public's private information. (What good is a secret if you can't tell anyone?) This is the only way we could appease the powers that be. Now the f*cking European Union think they can tell me what I can do with my publics private information. It is mine and I will continue to do with it whatever I like. Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
We have spent millions of dollars creating a new copyright law to protect authors and musicians, in Australia, and you guys come along and simply slap up circumvention devices like there never was a problem. Tell me this Smart arses: How do you think my corporate benefactors are going to treat me now that you've (in theory) stepped straight around the provisions in my new laws?? Don't you realise I'm goiung to have to send some Australians to jail for five years once they use this now illegal circumvention device. Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
Slashdot Mirror
Keep watching the news folks, it will include interesting bits such as the Australian Government psychofantically (that's how you spell it isn't it?) jumping onto the 'More Internet Regulation' bandwagon. Clearly, these guys used free internet encryption and anonaminity to smuggle plastic blades and bomb threats onto these planes.
You people can rest assured that we will remove every one of your liberties necessary to preserve ours. What a coincidence that the media has spun this low tech attack into a call for tighter internet regulations. It almost turns their fight from a battle to protect DVDs and CDs to a battle for our lives.
Anyway, repeating that news, ludicrously tight internet restrictions will be announced for Australia. The government is currently rubbing it's hands together and dreaming up all sorts of things. And we'll finally be able to get that grubby little arsehole that's been impersonating me on slashdot too.
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha wheeeeze ha ha ha ha ha ha cough
Damn right we will..
I'm already leaning towards banning it because it enables faster dissemination of copyright materials. We may have missed the chance to outlaw the internet as a whole, but we will definately get each and every individual new peice as it comes up.
Do you people not understand that we own you.
All your ass are belong to us.
Not only do we have our own version of the DMCA which would get this guy 5 years for creating a circumvention device, but we're actually introducing ammendments to the criminal code which would get him another 10 years for the same offence and of course even more time on top for having done it on a computer.
I actually have to wipe tears of laughter from my eyes as I think about the American Bill of Rights. Here, in Australia, the people's rights are protected by the politicians - however they see fit. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha.
In fact, our laws are now so intrusive that if Adobe gave us enough cash we could probably try extraditing this guy to Australia to face local charges over all of this. Unless someone can show that the law is unconstitutional, (which our constitution just doesn't provide for in this case), we'd have him!
By the way - has anyone noticed that you need to be using an Adobe product to view pretty much any Govt. document in Australia. Correction:You don't actually need to, but, with these new laws you wouldn't want to get caught using anything else.
Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
It's when I see nievety like this that a smile really spreads across my face.
You people know the truth, it's impossible to censor the internet. So, when I and my cronies decide to try doing just that, we already know it's not going to work.
WE DID THIS SO THAT GRANDMA SIXPACK WOULD THINK WE WERE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT ALL THE NASTIES WE'VE TOLD HER ARE ON THE NET.
Did the opposition set up anything like this? No.
Did we know that this massive waste of money would somehow surface in the media? Yes.
Does it concern us that the public erroniously thinks we are putting massive resouces towards fixing a problem in society? Not at all.
In short, guys. Either acknowledge that this can't work, or sound surprised when it doesn't, but don't do both.
All your p0rn are now belong to me!
Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
We (the Rich and Powerful) DO NOT want you people equiping yourselves with skills to stay independant of us. Why do you think we spend so much money trying to keep you from doing just that?
Don't go crying for this "criminal", either. He broke the law, just like you have, and luckily he was young and impressional enough that we were able to damage his psychie. Mark my words, give up your criminal activities before we advance this brain washing stuff to the point that we can get adults suicidal in minutes.
Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
How dare they. We, in the "civilised" world, have come to accept that our constituants simply cannot be trusted to manage their own security. So we locked them out of the entire equation and have enacted laws that enable anyone with a big enough purse to help themselves to the public's private information. (What good is a secret if you can't tell anyone?) This is the only way we could appease the powers that be.
Now the f*cking European Union think they can tell me what I can do with my publics private information. It is mine and I will continue to do with it whatever I like.
Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
We have spent millions of dollars creating a new copyright law to protect authors and musicians, in Australia, and you guys come along and simply slap up circumvention devices like there never was a problem.
Tell me this Smart arses: How do you think my corporate benefactors are going to treat me now that you've (in theory) stepped straight around the provisions in my new laws?? Don't you realise I'm goiung to have to send some Australians to jail for five years once they use this now illegal circumvention device.
Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston